To Make a Moth

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Description summary:
The description varies based on your Autolepidopterist level.

AutolepidopteristDescription
0–19Would you like your own Tapestry-Moth? Of course you would – it is the crowning jewel of any great Burgundian family (or so says the Moth-Eaten Mortician). [...]

The problem of moth-husbandry is the ruinous expense. [...]

[...]

20The Moth-Eaten Mortician makes a performance of solemnity. "We are ready to weave the cocoon now. All that remains is my final fee." He cannot quite keep the glee from his eyes. "And for me to ask the question: are you ready to die?"

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

Game Instructions: Actions in this storylet will increase your Autolepidopterist quality. Be warned: the cost and difficulty will rise as you go. This is not a profitable endeavour.

Unlocked with Acquaintance: The Moth-Eaten Mortician

Locked with Autolepidopterist 21

Storylet appears in Risen Burgundy

Autolepidopterist 0-11

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Make dye from your aches and pains
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Wounds 5, 1250 x Stuiver
    Locked with Autolepidopterist 12

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed adds 1 point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Each three points of Autolepidopterist increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

    Success

    Collected

    Failure

    Inopportune timing

    • Sidebarscandalsmall.png Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^
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Make dye from your fears and nightmares
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Make pigment from your social missteps
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Scandal 5, 1250 x Stuiver
    Locked with Autolepidopterist 12

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed adds 1 point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Each three points of Autolepidopterist increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

    Success

    Virtue and indiscretion

    Failure

    Inopportune timing

    • Sidebarscandalsmall.png Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^
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Make dye from your guilt and mischief
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Suspicion 5, 1,250 x Stuiver
    Locked with Autolepidopterist 12

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed adds 1 extra point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Each three points of Autolepidopterist increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

    Success

    Bleak

    Failure

    Excruciating

    • Sidebarwoundssmall.png Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^

Autolepidopterist 12–13

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Pulp your own good name
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Notability 5, 1,250 x Stuiver, Autolepidopterist 12–13

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 15 (50% base) || 11 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 12 - high-risk (20%) || 13 - high-risk (30%) || 14 - tough (40%) || 15 - very chancy (50%) || 16 - chancy (60%) || 17 - modest (70%) || 18 - very modest (80%) || 19 - low-risk (90%) || 20 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed adds 1 extra point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Success

    Titled and entitled

    Failure

    Inopportune timing

    • Sidebarscandalsmall.png Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^

Autolepidopterist 14

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Create a ducal dye
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Burgundian Beneficence 5, 5,625 x Stuiver, Autolepidopterist exactly 14

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 16 (50% base) || 12 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 13 - high-risk (20%) || 14 - high-risk (30%) || 15 - tough (40%) || 16 - very chancy (50%) || 17 - chancy (60%) || 18 - modest (70%) || 19 - very modest (80%) || 20 - low-risk (90%) || 21 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed adds 1 extra point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Success

    For the crown


    Failure

    Inopportune timing

    • Sidebarscandalsmall.png Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^
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Extract a rebellious dye
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Against Time and Kings 5, 5,625 x Stuiver, Autolepidopterist exactly 14

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 16 (50% base) || 12 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 13 - high-risk (20%) || 14 - high-risk (30%) || 15 - tough (40%) || 16 - very chancy (50%) || 17 - chancy (60%) || 18 - modest (70%) || 19 - very modest (80%) || 20 - low-risk (90%) || 21 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed adds 1 extra point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Success

    For the cause

    Failure

    Excruciating

    • Sidebarwoundssmall.png Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^

Autolepidopterist 15

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Create a pigment of absence
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Irrigo, 5,625 x Stuiver, Autolepidopterist exactly 15

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 19 (50% base) || 15 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 16 - high-risk (20%) || 17 - high-risk (30%) || 18 - tough (40%) || 19 - very chancy (50%) || 20 - chancy (60%) || 21 - modest (70%) || 22 - very modest (80%) || 23 - low-risk (90%) || 24 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed adds 1 extra point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Success

    Omissions

    Failure

    Excruciating

    • Sidebarwoundssmall.png Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^

Autolepidopterist 16

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Affix the city's judgement in colour
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with Judged by the Duchy, 5,625 x Stuiver, Autolepidopterist exactly 16

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 21 (50% base) || 17 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 18 - high-risk (20%) || 19 - high-risk (30%) || 20 - tough (40%) || 21 - very chancy (50%) || 22 - chancy (60%) || 23 - modest (70%) || 24 - very modest (80%) || 25 - low-risk (90%) || 26 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Each point of Neathproofed counts as 1 extra point of Kataleptic Toxicology.

    Success

    Through the land's eyes.

    Failure

    Inopportune timing

    • Sidebarscandalsmall.png Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
    ^

Autolepidopterist 17

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Offer hues of all that you could have been, and are no longer

Autolepidopterist 18

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Provide a concentrate of purest self-assurance

Autolepidopterist 19

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Ask what he means

Autolepidopterist 20

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Offer a body that is you and is not
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Offer a substitute body, and the promise of your transformation